help with metacity and windows something

[NoOp]

On 10/18/2010 01:07 AM, Jason Davis wrote:
> Sorry i am burnt up in the head right now.  After just starting to get to
> using the terminal and really loving Ubuntu netbook 10.04,  I have been on a
> 8 hour terror looking for some way to save my tail.    I had been loading
> all kinds of stuff including the compiz.   I had installed Tor and had just
> compiled some stuff.....ugh.   Then I noticed if I clicked on the metacity
> it wouldn't do anything so I took the Ubuntu software loader and uninstalled
> Metacity, the window panel and couch DB.  Well  when i went back to login I
> have a background of eye candy but no panels at all and the screen just
> flickers.  I have tried alot of things.  And i should probably post this
> when i am not just at the ends of my patience.
> 
> lets see the only thing i haven't done is rm -rf  .gnome .gnome2 .gconf
> .gconfd .metacity .....
> 
> i get a cant open display. when i try to make the compiz my primary in the x
> term...using the --replace &
> . i have tried  gconft-2  --shutdown  I have tried the gconftool-2
> R/desktop/gnome/session  then it would say  every normal line but the
> windowmanager and the panel is missing
>  and i have ran  gconftool-2 --recursive-unset /desktop/gnome/session and no
> luck.
> 
> I am sorry but the only computer i have is the one i am working on.  The
> only internet is thru m

So why not just reinstall what you uninstalled?

Let's see... "so I took the Ubuntu software loader and uninstalled
Metacity, the window panel and couch DB". And now your issue is "have a
background of eye candy but no panels at all"... Why not reinstall them?